INTELLECT Research Centre

The Centre, based within the Department of Education and Humanities, aims to promote multi-and interdisciplinary research and studies on digital and heritage education particularly referred to the promotion of transverse competences, especially critical thinking, in a perspective of furthering the social role of the museum as a tool for well-being and cultural participation. The Centre arose from a tight connection between new teaching methods and the use of innovative digital tools and it aims to develop cross-sectional skills in all cultural heritage users, particularly in displaced groups, and to support cultural mediation channels and tools. The creation of the Centre is based on the idea that conservation, valorisation and promotion of cultural heritage have a central role for the well-being (Chatterjee & Noble, 2013, Chatterjee & Kador, 2020), the economic development of the local productive activities and the social system in general, especially if they are performed through digital technologies and linked applications, in order to simplify the availability and the critical use of digital skills.